A Force More Powerful is a bit of a time capsule. The idea of CIA-backed nonviolence, and decades of work exporting Western democracy through soft coups, has been quickly erased by the current administration...

Dishonest! I hate this “the law hasn’t changed, we’ve just clarified what it always meant” thing. Did you think women’s rights didn’t change when the US Supreme Court merely clarified what the Constitution “always meant” on abortion? Of course not.

Me: Why do I have trouble getting players for my TTRPG Campaigns? Also Me: So this campaign is a mashup of the Wild West and Manchukuo using a homebrew system inspired by the Disco Elysium. The tone is Unforgiven 1992 and I want to get you in the headspace of the ritualised murder of the frontier

I actually think that there is one very important difference, which is that Zack's problems broadly stem from being an idiot in a not especially unusual way, whereas Kemi's stem from being from the planet Zebulon Five

Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 13h ago

I actually think they are such similar people fundamentally, honestly

In 2011, the UK government response to antitrans provocations was "Don't be so bloody stupid".

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 14h ago

web.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"

Dr Mary Ann Stevenson was appointed EHRC leader over the objections of the W&E Commitee by an ideological bigot for a singular, specific reason, and we're screamed at to pretend like the whole intestinal tract of state which has produced this shit is apolitical and innocent

Genuinely I feel like I'm going insane for people not realising this "She knows the source material better than anyone" okay that literally makes her a really bad option to review adaptations, does she know film criticism better than anyone too??

We shouod abolish the Supreme Court, imo. All it's done is give judges notions

For fuck's sake. The "protected belief" phenomenon has really got out of hand, judges are increasingly just throwing it out there for any weirdo who wants to harass people at work. Reminder that this provision was intended to protect *religious* beliefs.

if ryan murphy weren’t a coward, half of “love story: john f kennedy jr and carolyn bessette” would have just been recreating the george and martha dynamic from “who’s afraid of virginia woolf?” but somehow more toxic

I actually do think it's important to point out this hypocrisy, not for the Duffield's of the world, but for the oh so bashful liberal men on Bsky who find it all a bit awkward that their 'centre left feminist' pals have gone down this rabbithole. They're just transphobic bigots guys!

It got worse Need to go to A&E They won't send an Ambulance Nye Bevan can burn in hell

The Prophet Cassandra@prophetcassandra.bsky.social · last wk.

Update after several hours of waiting around only to be fobbed off: Would we notice at all if the NHS burnt down one day leaving nothing but ash? Perhaps it already has.

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

New post just out: "Burnham's first mistake" Splitting 14 year olds into academic and vocational paths seems intuitive. But it's a terrible idea that risks increasing inequality, and closing down options for the young people that need them most. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

Burnham's first mistake

The problem with his education plan

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It's really missing the most fun feature of these tests which is having the score translate into some extremely specific name like "Sapphic Hypo-Sub" or "Hypersexual Sorelianist"

Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 5d ago

This just makes me sound boring tbh

I honestly also think that her wealth only goes so far to explain this shit. You are Amnesty! Fight them! /Let/ her take you to court for libel, suffer the hit, you /literally have to/, what is your point otherwise

we have withdrawn A Growing Threat due to complaints from the growing threat

Me Normally: The NHS is our proudest creation, a true marvel, Nye Bevan was a hero, it must be defended at all costs. Me when I need to actually use the NHS: I hope Nye Bevan is burning in hell.

All women in or involved with Labour should be boycotting this conference tbh. I sideye anyone going (unless they're protesting).

Ashleeee 🌊🪭@reactiveashley.cat · last wk.

It’s now a Burnham transphobia problem. metro.co.uk/2026/07/29/m...

It’s now a Burnham transphobia problem. metro.co.uk/2026/07/29/m...

Powerful unions boycott Labour Women's Conference over trans ban

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭@reactiveashley.cat · 3w ago

But to answer your question, I will be observing how our trade union colleagues react to any changes. Seems like a battleground.

The big problem with the bill remains that it simply does not do what most British people want. Should start again with something that does:

Assisted dying should become legal but this legislation is flawed

Bill that failed to pass in this parliamentary session did not fulfil why most people say they support it

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Trans women being banned from Labour's Women's Conference is one of those things that just makes your head spin if you stop for a second and think about it. Imagine finding out this would be the case in, say, 2018. You'd think we'd all gone mad. Maybe we have! metro.co.uk/2026/07/29/m...

Powerful unions boycott Labour Women's Conference over trans ban

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Why Patty Hearst (1988) is massively underrated, is Paul Schrader's best film, and, since it's a film about the rotting of the New Left, is depressingly relevant if you're in leftist spaces a lot.

ETX Gov@etxgov.myatproto.social · last wk.

You've got a captive audience on a plane, and you know they can't open the doors and yeet you out. What subject are you gonna do a 30 minute sermon on?

Andy Burnham may be giving people some breathing space on the cost of living, but the cost of normal crisis remains as serious as it has ever been

Lord Glasman Wrote A Song For The Exiled Crown Prince Of Iran And Played It To Him

Exclusive: Labour peer Maurice Glasman wrote and recorded a song dedicated to Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last Shah of Iran, in support of his exi...

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you, a bluesky user, can say whatever you want. if you hold political office the standards to which you hold yourself should be a bit higher!

Started writing on Andy Burnham’s education proposal thinking “not sure about this”. Realised in writing “no, I am sure: it sucks!”

Education is not to blame for England’s Neet crisis

Andy Burnham’s schools overhaul risks throwing babies out with the bathwater, as changes will probably require cuts elsewhere

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The biggest difficulty for trans rights – the general public seems to believe the new guidance makes it possible to exclude eg trans women from women's services in some circumstances. No. This was the previous position. The current guidance requires their exclusion, always, regardless of context.

Bridget Phillipson – who is currently bringing guidance into force which will exclude trans people from toilets, and trans women from all women's services – has been appointed by Andy Burnham as Chair of the Labour Party.

Bridget Phillipson MP@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · last wk.

Honoured to become Chair of the Labour Party. I joined our party as a teenager and saw first hand the difference a Labour government makes. I'll work with members to build the election-winning machine that sees off Reform for good and secures a second Labour term.

Labour will see off Reform for good so they can do the nightmarish social conservatism but respectfully

Bridget Phillipson MP@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · last wk.

Honoured to become Chair of the Labour Party. I joined our party as a teenager and saw first hand the difference a Labour government makes. I'll work with members to build the election-winning machine that sees off Reform for good and secures a second Labour term.

2/ Recording and exchanging the so-called “sex at birth (observed)” with or without present sex/gender is outing. Now they are pushing the legal fiction that only when “sex at birth (observed)” is combined with gender identity does it give rise to outing.